A heat pump installed by the engineer who designed it.

MCS-certified installs across Surrey, Berkshire and the Home Counties. Designed in-house, fitted by our own crew, backed for seven years. Typical install £11,400–£16,800 after the £7,500 BUS grant — quoted in writing, ninety days fixed.

MCS 0073-2418 217 installs in 12 months 7-year workmanship guarantee
Live system · Cobham GU16
3.8 kW out / 1 kW in
An air-source heat pump installed at the side of a Surrey home.
3.8SCOP
Seasonal efficiency
42dB
Outdoor unit at 1m
62%
Vs. old oil boiler
Do we cover your area?

Most installs we’ve booked were within twelve miles of the office.

Certified by MCS RECC HIES Daikin Pro Mitsubishi BC Vaillant ARO NICEIC Gas Safe
Last 12 months

The numbers we publish — third-party audited.

217
Installs completedBR, GU, RG, RH postcodes
6.2M kWh
Heat delivered per yearEquivalent to 850 average UK homes
1.4kT
CO₂ avoided per yearvs. the gas they replaced
7yr
Workmanship guaranteePlus 10yr on the unit itself
A typical install, end-to-end

From your first call to a warm house, usually nine weeks.

No work starts without a written quote, a fully designed heat-loss survey, and a date you've agreed in writing. Below is what actually happens, on the actual days it happens.

Free in-home thermal survey

An engineer comes round, not a salesperson. Forty minutes. We measure radiators, take a U-value reading, and tell you whether a heat pump genuinely makes sense in your home.

Day 1One visit

MCS-grade heat-loss design

You get a full heat-loss model on paper. Recommended unit with sizing rationale, every radiator listed, labour and materials broken out, BUS grant deducted at the bottom.

Days 2–6In your inbox by Friday

You decide, in your own time

We don't follow up beyond one polite check-in. The quote is fixed for ninety days. If the answer is no, the answer is no — no chase, no discount drama.

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Week 2 onwardsYour call, no pressure

Installation, our crew, our vans

Three to five days on site. Floors protected, new pipework run along structural lines, radiators swapped where the design requires it. Commissioned with thermal-imaging photos at handover.

Weeks 6–8Our team, never subbed

One-month tune, then we're behind you

We come back at four weeks to tune the weather-compensation curve to how you actually live. Then a seven-year workmanship guarantee and a real phone number — answered by someone who knows your install.

Week 12 →Seven years on the books
What sets us apart

The detail that other installers quietly skip.

Heat pumps fail because of bad design, not bad units. We over-spec at the survey, get the hydraulics right, and walk away from jobs we can't make work.

Approach

Designed-first installs, with the maths in writing.

You get the heat-loss model on paper. Every radiator, every pipe run, every °C of flow temperature.

Grant handling
£7.5k

BUS grant claimed for you. Off the invoice, not in your inbox.

Noise level
42dB

At 1m. Quieter than a fridge. Quieter than a polite conversation.

Hardware we know

Daikin, Mitsubishi, Vaillant.

Three brands we'd put in our own homes. No badge-engineered "premium" rebrands. We commission what we sell.

The crew

Our own engineers. Never subbed.

Six in-house engineers — no agency labour, no day-rate strangers in your kitchen. Their names are below, because they earned it.

The promise

If your system doesn't hit 3.2 SCOP in its first year, we re-engineer it at our cost.

The crew on your job

Four named engineers. No subcontractors.

Every install is designed, fitted and commissioned by one of these four. You'll meet two of them on the survey, the other two on the install. They're on the phone if anything's off, for seven years.

Portrait of Mike Pickering, founder of Northstar Energy.

Mike Pickering

Founder · MCS Designer

Designed every install we've shipped since 2019. Listed engineer on MCS 0073-2418.

Portrait of Tom Carter, lead installation engineer at Northstar Energy.

Tom Carter

Lead Install Engineer

Eleven years on Daikin and Mitsubishi gear. Runs every commissioning visit on-site.

Portrait of Sarah Ellis, heat-loss surveyor at Northstar Energy.

Sarah Ellis

Heat-Loss Surveyor

Took 412 thermal surveys last year. Holds the U-value tool and the honest opinion.

Portrait of James Holland, second engineer at Northstar Energy.

James Holland

2nd Engineer · Vaillant ARO

Joined out of his Vaillant apprenticeship in 2023. Six years on hydraulics before that.

Recent install · Cobham, Surrey
A warm Surrey living room with bare wood floors and modern radiators, post-installation.
12kW Ecodan · Jan 2026

1932 detached, oil to heat pump, four days on site.

Stephen and Carol's semi in Cobham had been on a tired oil system since they moved in. We designed a 12kW low-flow heat pump with five replacement radiators, kept their existing thermal cylinder, and integrated the Mitsubishi control with their existing Hive set-up.

Unit
Mitsubishi Ecodan
Capacity
12kW
Flow temp
45°C
SCOP
3.94
On-site
4days
Annual saving
£1,840

“They quoted what they meant, installed what they quoted, came back when they said they would, and my January electricity bill was £147.

SP
Stephen PickeringCobham · 12kW Ecodan, installed Jan 2026
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Survey within the week. Heat pump by July.

Most enquiries we book a free survey for within four working days. Bigger properties we'd usually want a half-hour phone call first to talk through the existing setup. Either way, you'll get a straight answer about whether a heat pump is right for your home.

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